I DO NOT OWN ANYONE OR ANYTHING IN THIS STORY BESIDES THE OC'S.
Adora's Point of View-
Maryse, Mike and I ate dinner before I excused myself going back to my room unpacking a few things from the box before I decided to call it a night because I was still tired from the night before and I didn't know when Mike was planning on heading out tomorrow to find Maryse's engagement ring. I was woken up the next morning by a knock, the door opened slightly and I looked at the male figure knowing it was Mike.
"You awake?" Mike asked.
"Yeah, now I am…let me get dressed and I'll be ready to go." I said smiling as he nodded. I got up from my bed changing into a pair of clean clothes realizing I needed to do some laundry since I was low on clean clothes. I pulled my hair up into a loose ponytail before I headed out to meet with Mike in the living room where I followed him to his car. "You know where we are going for this ring?" I asked when we got into the car.
"I know a few places in case the first place doesn't have one we like." Mike said as he pulled out of the drive way, I watched the scenery of LA when Mike drove by the big Staples Arena knowing that the next weekend we will be around this area for SummerSlam which got me nervously excited. "You talk to Hunter yet?" Mike asked.
"I'll call him when we return from shopping, he may be out doing errands and such." I said shrugging.
"Please don't forget."
"You okay if I tell him what's going on because he may want to know instead of some surprise." I said.
"No problem with that as long as he doesn't ruin the surprise to Maryse."
"When do you ever see Hunter and Maryse talking?" I asked
"Never, but I still don't want her to find out…"
"She won't find out." I promised as he pulled into a parking lot to a jewelers, I climbed out following him into the store where we looked over the different rings they had, we spent close to 2 hours in that one store and we found a few rings that looked great, I was quite fond of the one but Mike wanted to go check the other two before he chose the perfect one because he was afraid he will buy one here and there would be a 'better' one at one of the other stores. Mike and I went to the other stores finding just as many rings and we went back to his car where we sat in the front seat discussing all the rings we had seen that day stating what we liked about each ring before he had narrowed it down to the perfect ring from the first store, we went back to the first store where he had purchased that ring and they boxed it, the whole ride back I couldn't help but to stare at the ring in the box smiling.
"Is that ring good?" Mike asked as he glanced over to me.
"Perfect…she will love it…you have really manned up about this Mike…I'm proud of you…" I said smiling, I honestly couldn't wait until I saw Maryse's face when this happens. I closed the box pulling out my phone seeing multiple texts from Alex responding back to him telling him that I was hanging with Mike and that I didn't remember to check my phone. I called Hunter and he picked up after the second ring.
"Hello." Hunter said.
"Hey Hunter, sorry to bother you on your day off…" I said.
"No problem…what's up?" He asked.
"I got a question or two for you."
"I may have answers for you."
"Okay, SummerSlam is next weekend and you want me to have a match at Axxess, may my match be against Maryse?"
"Yeah, no problem…" Hunter said.
"Another thing, Mike is going to propose to Maryse after our match in the ring, is that okay?" I asked, I knew Hunter enough where he would say yes to this and it seemed like slow motion waiting for the response.
"Yeah, that is fine…we will have Maryse win and Mike could come out, I'll talk with the schedulers and tell them not to put him at a booth during your match time." Hunter said.
"That's great, thanks Hunter…"
"No problem….tell Maryse she has to be at training so you guys could practice your match…I trust you two to put on a good match since I have seen your work at that independent show before we scooped Maryse up but it's been years since you two have been in the ring together."
"I'll tell her the good news."
"Tell Mike congrats and time to put his big boy pants on." Hunter said jokingly.
"I will." I said as we said our good-byes hanging up and put my phone back in my pocket. "Hunter said it's a go, he said he will talk to the schedulers to make sure you aren't at a booth while we have a match. He said congrats and it's time to put your big boy pants on." I said
"Okay…so it's a go?"
"It's a go…no backing out now." I said smiling, Mike had a smile but yet nervous expression on his face. We went back home, I slid the box into my pocket to go hide somewhere in my room for Mike since he couldn't necessarily hide it in his room since he shares it with Maryse.
"I just finished cooking lunch, you want some?" Maryse asked as we almost bumped into each other as I came out of my room.
"Absolutely." I said as I followed her into the kitchen where we sat at the table eating what she cooked, Mike wasn't there.
"What's up with Mike?" Maryse asked.
"Alex said he has been really focused on his match at SummerSlam and I don't know why…he's never this zoned out about a match before…talking about SummerSlam, I talked to Hunter about my match at Axxess." I said as I took a bite of the sandwich.
"Oh, what did he say?" Maryse asked.
"Your going to be my opponent so he wants you to come to training with me so we could get back into the swing of working together again since we haven't been in a full match since the independent leagues besides when I get in my funk mode." I said.
"Sounds good…" Maryse said smirking as we continued eating lunch discussing girl things before I went back to my room unpacking my box while doing laundry. "Have you finished your new ring attire?" Maryse asked as I sat onto the couch beside her and Mike was into the game being shown on the television monitor.
"It's mostly done, unsure if I want to put some of these finishing touches on them…" I said.
"Like what?" Maryse asked.
"Well, they want to tag me with Alex, debating if I want to put the V's on the back or what not like his letterman jacket." I said shrugging.
"Don't put it on now, but other than that it's done?"
"Yep, you want to see?" I asked.
"Sure, has Claudia seen it?"
"No, I was going to show her this weekend though…" I said as I got up going into my bedroom putting on the attire I had made myself for the wrestling attire. I had gotten a letterman jacket much like Alex's but I had made it half a letterman jacket to where it ended below my bust line but above my hip line so it wasn't a full jacket, it had the sleeves cut off and I hadn't put anything on it besides perhaps stitching my name on it and add the stuff to it later when I am first brought onto the WWE show with Alex, I don't want to ruin it quite yet so I probably won't wear it until my first debut on WWE. I pulled my top on, my top was much like a cheerleading top, it was blue on the back then at the shoulder seam it turned to white with blue and yellow V stripes that corresponded with the V-neck that was to show off my cleavage line I had, then at the bottom it had two solid lines, it was yellow then it was blue to where the yellow and blue V's had ended. I then pulled on some yellow bloomers to wear over my underwear that I was already wearing then I pulled on the blue and yellow skirt over it with a white belt. It was blue on top then it had cuts at the bottom into squares of sorts but nothing was missing, it was just mainly slits along the end, much like a cheerleading outfit then there was a yellow layer that went a little longer with the same type of hem to it, I figured blue and yellow since his jacket was blue with the yellow stitching. I walked out in that, I only needed to get boots and padding, which I figured I could talk Maryse into going with me to go do tomorrow around town where she got hers custom made but I don't know what type of boots or padding I want.
"That will definitely match Alex's varsity jacket…" Maryse said smiling.
"You like it?" I asked.
"I love it, what about you Mike?" Maryse asked as we looked to Mike.
"Looks good, you design that too?" Mike asked.
"Yeah, I was thinking tomorrow go by that boot and padding place you guys go to get mine done?" I asked.
"What you planning on getting them to look like?" Maryse asked.
"I don't know…blue?" I said shrugging.
"I don't think they do blue….it's either black or white but you can do the fabric covers like Punk does to his…" Maryse said.
"I could…what do you think about stitching my name in here?" I asked showing where I wanted to put the stitching.
"What you want to stitch?" Mike asked.
"Character name…which I need to think of…" I said as I sat down.
"What if you just stick with what you named yourself last time, Addison." Maryse said.
"I like that name but I need to get it approved through Hunter and the creative team." I said.
"Call him, you need to know so you could stitch it in…." Maryse said as I knew she was right, I got up going back into my room changing out of my ring attire hanging it up and knew I had to pack it before I got into a pair of pajamas to relax in while I called Hunter real quick before I called Alex for our daily 3 plus hour chat.
"What now Addie?" Hunter asked.
"Sorry, I was working on my ring attire, I want to do a dress rehearsal this weekend with it and what do you think of my character's name being Addison? I want to stitch it onto my attire and I need approval." I said.
"It sounds good, that type of stuff like names is up to the star…unless if it's something specific." Hunter said.
"Okay, so that is okay if I stitch that onto my attire?"
"Stitch away Addie." Hunter said as I could tell he was smiling on the other side.
"Okay, I talked to Maryse and she said she will be at the training this week so it's on." I said smiling.
"Okay, it'll be fun." Hunter said as we said our good byes and I got more comfortable on the bed calling Alex to begin our long talk, I continued talking to him through the night as I finished my laundry and folding it, it was much needed. It got to 3 AM when Alex said he will call me the following day since the sun was already coming up where he lived, we said our love you and good byes before we hung up and I put what was on my bed up when I still wasn't tired when I started really unpacking that box finding a picture of Maryse, Mike and I back when I was just turning 21 and we were at a bar celebrating, I couldn't help but to smile remembering that night. Mike, Maryse and I were seriously the three amigos then and still are. Mike has always been a brother type to me, I may have hated him at first because I was being greedy wanting Maryse to spend more time with me and afraid that he will treat her bad, but what sister isn't protective of their siblings because lord knows the men are just as protective of their siblings. I put that picture frame on my nightstand next to the one I had received from Alex sometime over the last month or so of us two together from Disneyland, now every time I wake up I have a reason to smile. I picked up the picture frame holding the picture of Alex and I remembering when that was taken and smiling and chuckling at the events of that day, I truly loved that man knowing that Mike may not like it but those two are insanely close like brothers so it only makes sense why those two are close, I can only hope that Alex and I can have the type of relationship Maryse and Mike has. I put the picture frame up as I was going through the box recollecting on things putting a few things up when I noticed my door slowly opening seeing Flake wandering in. I never really spent much time with Maryse's dog, he was usually being watched while we were on tour and when home he is usually attached to Maryse.
"Hey Flake, come here." I said patting my bed, he jumped up onto my bed surprisingly as I cleared spots off so I could finally lay down feeling my eyes getting heavy and Flake laid beside me on the pillow, it was a weird spot for him to sleep but that is where he wanted to lay. I woke up the next morning by Flake licking my face, I chuckled as I opened my eyes pushing him away a tad enough to sit up climbing out of the bed heading out of my room with him behind me.
"Have you seen Flake?" Maryse asked in a panic when Flake walked out from behind my legs, "He slept with you last night, you must have been up late in order for him to hear you." Maryse said.
"Don't ask." I said wiping at my face heading into the kitchen to make some coffee.
"You still want to go out today to grab those boots and such?" Maryse asked.
"Yeah, may we stop by so I can pick up some fabric to do the covers for my boots?"
"You think it's smart to do fabric? Why not the decal sticker type thing?"
"Oh, I know what your talking about…I don't know where that could be done." I said honestly.
"I do, you have a design you want done?" Maryse asked.
"If you give me some time to wake up and think it over I could come up with something." I said.
"No problem…" Maryse said as I begun making myself a bagel to eat with my coffee, I ate my bagel and drunk my coffee feeling more awake as I went and grabbed my drawing book taking it to the couch sitting there thinking about what I want on my boots when I just started doing a camouflage type design with the colors blue and yellow but realized it won't work if it was a decal, this was the hardest thing I could think of when I decided just to go with something simple and that would be blue and yellow stripes that I could wrap around the boot or any other way. I got dressed and told Maryse I was ready to go, we took her car to the boot and padding place. "Hey Fredrick, what deals you have today?" Maryse asked as she broke the hug with the employee.
"When don't we have great deals, what you looking for?" Fredrick asked as he looked to me with his hands cupped together in front of him.
"This is my sister, Adora, and she is looking at getting her pads and boots, what do you have in stock?" Maryse asked.
"What colors do you need?" Fredrick asked as he shook my hand.
"What colors do you have?" I asked.
"For boots, I have only black and white in stock but if you need any other color I can send you to my buddy or if you want to get one of those and want to do decals I know a guy that can do the decals." Fredrick said.
"I think I will go with white." I said.
"White?" Maryse asked.
"The belt on my skirt is white, it'll match a whole lot better and if I do decals it'll show up better." I said.
"You want your pads white too?" Fredrick asked.
"Do you have blue or yellow?" I asked.
"I have both, what one do you want?" Fredrick asked.
"I'll do blue." Maryse suggested.
"Blue it is." I said.
"What size boot you want to try on?" Fredrick asked.
"Do they come in wide?" I asked, I knew they probably didn't because 99% of them didn't.
"No we don't, go 1-2 sizes up." Fredrick said.
"Well I wear 9 ½ Wide, so try a 10 or 11." I said as he nodded heading to the back as Maryse and I begun looking at the decorations he had of wrestlers, boxers and UFC fighters along with signed merchandise.
"Here we go." Fredrick said.
"When you going to ask for my autograph Fredrick?" Maryse asked as I sat down taking my shoes off to try the boots on.
"Whenever you bring it in for me." Fredrick said smiling as I tried on the 11 and it seemed too big at first then I tried the 10 on and they seemed to be the perfect fit for me. I got up walking around realizing that I could move better in these than I would the 11 due to how much bigger it was. "Those good?" Fredrick asked.
"Yep, these are it." I said smiling as I went back taking them off sliding my original shoes on going to the counter where Fredrick asked for what sized padding I need which was a Medium even though I think small will fit me but I liked my padding to be loose rather than tight where it's cutting my circulation off. He rung it up and we paid for it before we headed out then went to the decal place next where they had printed out the stars and the stripes for me before we headed home where I sat on the couch perfectly putting the decals onto my boots the way that I wanted them to be trying to make little to none mistakes on it. In the end, I was proud with the way it had turned out and I showed Maryse and Mike, they both loved them so I put them aside along with the padding to pack into my suitcase. I was in my room sitting on my bed going through my old designs and realizing that I won't be doing this anymore until I want to change my attire or if Maryse, Mike or Alex wants a new outfit this will be long gone and regretting that much time I had spent in college for something that had never worked out in the end but yet I should just be happy that I have a job within the WWE and ultimately that is where I wanted to be in my whole life and I have the love of my life, my sister and soon to be brother in law here to support me. A knock came to the door, I looked up at the door not knowing if it was Mike or Maryse, "It's open." I said as I started closing my design book and putting it aside when Mike came in holding a hanger up.
"What do you think of this?" Mike asked.
"Maryse see this?" I asked.
"No, I sent her out to get pizza for dinner." Mike said smirking as I climbed off the bed going to the door grabbing the hanger looking at the outfit he had chosen, it was black slacks that I was there when he bought, a white professional button down shirt and a black skinny tie.
"It's a lot of black, you sure you want to wear this in this weather?" I asked.
"What do you suggest?" Mike asked.
"Hm…this is a good outfit, just drink a lot of water okay?" I asked.
"I always do." Mike said smirking, he just stared at the outfit for a little while before he lowered it but yet he stood there as if he had zoned out.
"Mike, you okay?" I asked.
"Yeah, you sure you want to go through this whole wrestling thing?" Mike asked.
"Yes Mike, I can wrestle and will wrestle, you just worry about next weekend." I said smiling as he nodded, I knew he wanted to worry about me wrestling and I knew he worried 10 times worse about Maryse when she wrestles but I figured he will be more worried about Maryse.